Welcome to
Celebrating Life In Recovery!
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If Jesus came today,
do you think you would be
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hanging with bikers?
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I think you would any it
makes my heart just full of joy.
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He would hang out
with us, He would love us.
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Come in and meet
everybody at the Café.
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You will be blessed.
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Welcome back!
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You know what the set looks
a little bit different than
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it usually does, and I
think we are going to laugh
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out loud on this program.
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I love it when God comes
into the lives of the very least
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likely that He
would even be there.
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Someone says I was smoking
some weed, sitting in a bar
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and drinking some
beer and God showed up.
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I like love Him for
that, I love Him for that.
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I want to start before I
introduce you to everybody on
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the set, before I tell
you why it is different,
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why we are doing
a program like this,
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I want to introduce you
to a friend of mine Denielle.
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Danielle, thank you
for being on the program.
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And I want to tell a story about
what happened with you and me.
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Okay - okay!
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Okay, one time, and somebody
has heard this story before
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on this program,
but not with you on it.
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One time I brought
somebody in from California and
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they drove
thirty-six hours to get here.
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They came with a bunch
of foster kids and you know
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he didn't want to come.
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He's seventeen years old and
he said Cheri I don't want to
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come because I like
still smoking weed and
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I'm not doing that good.
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I said please come, and
he's like okay I'll come,
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but I don't know
because I'm not doing that good.
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He said if I come I'm going
to stay in the very back of
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the church and I don't
even want anyone to talk to me.
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So when he came I was
busy because the concert
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was happening, right?
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And he walked in and you
saw him, what did you think?
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- I knew in my heart
that he didn't know Jesus,
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so I started drawing.
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You even asked your mom,
do you think he knows Jesus?
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She said I think so, and
your like, oh I don't think so.
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- I knew in my
heart that he didn't.
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What did he say? Because
he tell me he was going to
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sit in the very
back of the church.
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- Well he sat right there,
right where I can see him.
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- Right behind you?
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- Yes, and it was like
mom, I think I, I think I...
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- I want to draw him a picture.
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Yeah - he said it was so
funny because he sat behind
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you and said that she turned
around and looked at me and
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he said my heart started
beating and I don't know why,
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it started beating hard.
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I started to sweat in my
palms started to get sweaty.
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And she just kept looking at
me and drawing and every once
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in while I would try not
to pay attention to her and
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I would look at the concert.
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Then all the sudden I would
realize that she is looking
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at me again and I don't
know why but I didn't want her
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to look at me and she
kept looking at me and drawing.
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Pretty soon he said you
dropped the paper on the ground
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and what did you do with it?
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I slid it under him - all
the way to his foot - Yep!
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Then you looked up at him.
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- And I looked up and
then I looked at the paper.
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And he's like oh no she
wants me to pick up the paper.
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- I didn't want him to look
at me because I was kind of shy
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and I didn't want to start
talking to him like right then.
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Then your hand
was right by the foot.
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Paper was right on his foot,
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and she's like you
have to pick it up.
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And he's like in his heart,
do you know what he was saying?
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He said, I was
almost screaming inside.
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I don't want to pick it up.
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I'm not going to pick
it up, what is she doing?
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What is she doing?
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He finally picks it up,
and what was the picture?
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- It was of him and it said,
that God loves you no matter
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what, and I just kept sliding
it until it reached his foot
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and I couldn't go no more.
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- when he finally
picked it up and saw a picture
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of him sitting there,
and that is what you drew,
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and when he read God
loves you no matter what,
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he said
everything changed for him.
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He said you know what
I thought immediately?
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Is that God loves
me no matter what.
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He said in his heart, he saw
himself as saved and not lost.
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He wanted to quit smoking
weed, quit smoking cigarettes.
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He wanted to
change his whole life.
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He said that after you
drew that picture of him,
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he didn't even want to go
back to his home in California
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because he was afraid
that maybe his friends would
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influence him in a bad way, and
his parents were drug addicts.
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So do you know what he did?
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He called an Aunt and Uncle
in Texas and said, can I come
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stay with you, because he
knew that they were Christians.
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He left 3ABN, he left
here and went to Texas so that
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he would be safe.
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- God doesn't care if you
smoke or anything, God loves you
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so much that He
doesn't care what you do.
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He wants you to come to
Him and He will work on the
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smoking later, He will work
on all that stuff later, right?
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He said you know what
you are safer coming to Me.
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You know what is
amazing to me, Denielle?
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Is that I think you have
such a heart for God that you
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know that, it's amazing I
want to say thank you for,
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we are going to put a picture up
of Bo so that they can see him.
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His name is Bo, he is
seventeen and is now turning
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eighteen and he
loves God and he loves you.
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- I can't wait to see him again.
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You'll be drawing us some
more pictures, give me five.
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Well I'm going to introduce
you to the rest of the folks
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on the program and Dave I
want you to come up first.
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I have got to just say
that when Denielle came and drew
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that picture for Bo and
put on there that God loves you
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no matter what, when
that changed his life
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he really made me start
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to think that even there are
times that somebody will walk
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in and everybody
knows they're a mess.
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Everybody knows they're
trashed, their smoking weed,
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their smoking cigarettes,
they don't know how to talk
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yet, walked yet, they
definitely are twisted in their
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thinking, they have rage issues,
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they may say and
do the wrong thing.
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Sometimes the only one in
the church that sees them as a
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child of God lost and
trying to find their way in the
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building, it's the kids.
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They will say, you
know mom I don't think
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that guy knows Jesus.
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And in it is hard for
them not to even just point,
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and I want to say
God bless the kids.
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I want to say too, is that
if we all became like little
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kids, Denielle if we all
had your heart, I think that
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we would bless anybody
that walked in the door.
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Dave I just wanted
to say, it cracks me up,
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today we had a cancellation
on this particular hour
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and we didn't know what to do.
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Yesterday I'm thinking we have
a cancellation and I thought,
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I love your
Ministry so I called.
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I said let's call Dave
and see if he can get somebody
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that is, I know there is
some biker clubs here that are
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riding for Jesus that
really have changed their lives.
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Let's see if we can get
something together and I want
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you to say what happened
from the time I called you,
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because you know I'm
looking around and this place
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is packed with bikers.
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- Well we are just
friends that ride together.
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Some of the riders
are from our own church,
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some are from America
Motorcycle Association.
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We do a lot of the
same rides together.
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They do rides we
don't do, but it's all about
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the same thing though.
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- They are, some of them
are just baby Christians.
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- Oh, really aren't
we all but, yes, yes!
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- so when you talk about some,
they do rides you don't do,
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what does that mean because
some people don't even know
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there is Christian
biker groups that have come
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into the relationship
with God and actually go out
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and do things.
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- My, many associations
all over the United States.
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Even the American Motorcycle
Association, that is close
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here, is just a
chapter of a large Association.
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There are so many things
that bikers get involved in all
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over the United States
for good causes of all kinds.
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- and there is some, you
can tell on some patches, you
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can see on their jackets that
they will be riding for Christ.
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These are definitely Christian
clubs and you may look at
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them and say,
Christian are you kidding me?
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You talk to them and the
only thing you can say is
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absolutely their
heart is one for God.
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There is all stages I guess,
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as there is all
stages of Christians.
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Some of us would be a sissy
in a bike group compared to
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some that take
it very seriously.
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They ride in a way and
witness in a way that a lot of
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bike associations don't go
that far, so it is according
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to personalities and calls
that God has put on your life.
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They are just like a Paul,
they go into places that may be
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a lot of us will never
see, so there is all kinds of
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associations and clubs as
there is all kinds of calls.
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- you know I want to
say to say to folks that are
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listening, if you want to
pray for a group this is a
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good group to pray for
because some places we can't go
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as a normal Christian,
just walking in and we can't go,
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but somebody that has been
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there can walk right back
and rescue somebody right from
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the Gates of... you know!
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You know they just walk right
in and say I've been right where
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you've been - yeah the
greatest understatement ever
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made was the one
that, God You can't use me.
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Like He told me one time
you can't lead someone someplace
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you haven't been, so
there goes that verse,
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for all things
work together for good.
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- everything - yes, so
everyone has a testimony.
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Why would God put the two
together, you are over comers
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by the blood of the Lamb
and the word of your testimony.
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What power your
testimony must have - Amen!
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- Everyone has one - you
know sometimes, even reading
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different stories in the
Bible of David it when he went
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out and murdered somebody,
had this adulterous affair
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and came back and say
God, when he realized,
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he said he was so sorry.
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But also there was a guy
in the New Testament, crazy,
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filled with
demons, cutting on himself,
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beating people up and
all that kind of stuff.
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First time I heard that
story I think I dated that guy,
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you know what I mean?
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When Christ cleaned him
up, I thought it was really
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interesting is that Christ
cleaned him up and he is in
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his right mind for the
first time ever and He said,
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go back and tell someone.
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When God first stood me
up to tell my testimony,
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I said how much do
You want me to tell?
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You know what I mean because
I'm thinking who wants to
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tell that stuff, and
then He reminded me that the
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demoniac, half crazy, filled
with a thousand demons went
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back to town and
said you know what,
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I had a little
problem with anger and
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God just worked on me.
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Then instead of saying I was
filled with a thousand demons,
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I was out of control,
crazy that they wouldn't even
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let me in town.
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Some of the folks that are
riding and doing the ministry
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now, were that
crazy - Sure! Sure!
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- But that is
what makes them useful.
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Well just like some of
the guys here that have
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testimonies that I can't
even identify, so what would I
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have business going into
a place where they can go?
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Like the Lord said make
your calling and election sure,
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well if He is in your
calling there is no place you
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can't go, but He
uses you in your calling,
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those things in your
past makes you very useful,
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because of what is in your past.
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It creates the
character you are.
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- As you watch God change
the lives of some of the folks
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you see in
these hard-core clubs,
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what does it do to your heart?
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It always gives you hope,
that is what changed my life
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was realizing that, what
you mentioned one, David.
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If he could do what he did
and God turned right around and
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called him a man after
God's own heart, I thought wow,
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I have a chance - exactly
Amen - so here we all are.
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I'm going to start introducing
you to a number of folks
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here because you really
did start the ball rolling and
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those that responded
I think God had in mind
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from the very beginning. -
that's right, that's right!
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- So I want to
introduce you to some folks,
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I want to say Denielle,
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I want you to stay and
hang out with us if you want.
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If you want to take
off you have your bike,
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do you want to stay or take off?
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- I'll stay, I'm
glad you'll stay.
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I'm proud of you, and
you know we are going to come
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back and be talking to
different folks that are around
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here, on their bikes.
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Different people that God
has called for this program and
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at the end of this program
you are going to be proud of
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them and definitely a
proud of God because I so am.
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Stay with us it's a
blast, I can't even wait!
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